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this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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And all walls, windows, surfaces... because... there have already long been developed (scant ever deployed) photovoltaic paint, photovoltaic dyes, ways to make road/pavement surfaces photovoltaic, not to mention also, simultaneouslly, wind walls, to eliminate eating up farmland and the sea with wind turbines. The paints and dyes (afaiagtu) are more efficient in shallow and ambient low light [than the typical^], which is perfect for such use.
Not to mention other microgeneration... because that'd be too emancipatory and upsetting the industrial leverage over workers and consumers.
Two things have lead to that first picture though.
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We've been underpaying farmers for a long time. Everyone buys from supermarkets, and supermarkets will pay farmers a meagre amount for produce. Cheap imports are further hammering the farmer. Hard to compete in northern Europe with slavery conditions in southern Spain.
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We've been overpaying for solar too. Locking it to the rate of fossil fuel energy means it's well worth covering a field in solar panels and reaping the rewards.
Both of these should change, but since nobody has any money, it's a hard sell to make people want to pay more for farm produce, especially when you don't know who is soaking that extra money up. Capitalism says it's going to be the supermarket owners taking the lion's share.
NIMBY but city-dweller edition. "Stop covering up the farmland that you can't make money off of and cover my parking lot instead"
Both will be necessary to generate enough power